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In this video, I will be talking about my experience with this ableist teacher I had for three whole years in middle school. It is one doozy of a story.
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Sharing advisory with you. I can confirm this woman was hell.
Wait, syzygy's IRL friends watch their videos??
@@PupkinPumpkin i do! But I have not talked to them in so dang long
@@lilymoon9659i feel sad for you, you suffered a worse fate than me
@@AlicornHana what happened? I live t
My teacher pulled me and my friend out of class one day to interrogate us. They asked us if we were in a relationship and I refused. She told me I was lying and that it was wrong to be in a same sex relationship
Damn, teachers can be weird sometimes
That’s fucked up.
Not only is she homophobic, BUT SHE'S ALSO *THAT* KIND OF PERSON??
Damn, I don't like to wish bad on people but she needs to be fired if she doesn't change 💀
You and your friend, wow
Wow…so Not only is she homophobic, but she also doesn’t mind her own business.💀😭
They didn’t make us do “character strong” but they did make us do “social emotional”. It’s basically exactly the same as that.
Also I told all my teachers that I have poor memory (due to ADHD but I didn’t tell them I have ADHD or Autism) so I might forget assignments or have a hard time remembering to do things but they would continue to nag me about it every single day. My friends also didn’t get why you have to ask me if you want to touch me. I genuinely flinched (and I still flinch) whenever someone touches me without me expressing permission or when I don’t know them.
Oh my god-
So I have this friend who had this kind of, weird greeting thing- where they came up behind me (or any other friend)
and aggressively kind of, pat their shoulder's?
(like, say your drawing on the board or watching yt on a school laptop, then all of a sudden your friend comes up behind you and swiflty places both their hands on your shoulders.)
It's really invading and intrusive- and overall harsh, which coupled with my brother's want to match into the
'annoying younger brother' trope (Poking me, tapping me, being overall annoying (ex. he keeps pausing my video and unpausing swiftly while i'm in the middle & watching, over and over each time I look away)
It becomes unbearable and ruins my mood.
@@stephaniecourteoreille5972 that doesn’t sound like a very good friend :(
@@stephaniecourteoreille5972 argh, annoying younger brothers! it's also worse that your friend does that, have you told them? ☹
Why didn’t you just write stuff down in a planner
@@leaddust5539 because the planner they provided us was actual dog feces
As someone who went to the same middle school, I will say this: I am glad character strong and the Webby pledge got done with. However, in High School, we still have character strong, and I was told it was a state law, but my High School just doesn’t do it and say we did.
The middle school sounds simmlar to mine
"This is my Webby" I would have simply dropped out
My teachers loved to bully me for being mute, the only reason I was mute was because I had serious social anxiety and was just in a bad mental state. Being mute was a problem at some points but I felt if I talked I was disturbing or distracting people. To make things worse I was given names such as ghost, quiet kid, emo girl, etc. Those things only worsened my mental state and anxiety giving me more of a reason to stay quiet, I made sounds and grunts for answers but no coherent words. Middle school was terrible
Edit: everyone ignored the fact I had adhd so they acted like I was to lazy, or didn't talk because I was a rebellion.
I'm a highschool student and in the morning we have to go to our 'tutor' for regristration. I swear to god, my tutor makes us hug each other and sing 'let it be'. As somebody who is also autistic I can't touch other people and loud noises (like a bunch of chaotic kids singing) tend to make me really uncomfortable. It doesn't help either that I've diagnosed with depression so these kind of things are a no for me. I've told her multiple times that i can't do this because of my autism and she just tells me to get over it 😭- This woman deserves a best teacher award
As someone who's autistic kid who has the most insane reactions. I would NOT even hesitate to laugh maniacally, my parents said that my laugh is disturbing so why WOULDN'T I use it here? I kinda use it as an deffense mechanism, same with bitting and chocking their neck. And I DON'T care if I kill or harm then in a ANY WAY! I have been in situations like that, being threatened that I would be locked up, but... WHO CARES?... Sorry... Just reading this makes me mad.
As someone who was diagnosed with ASD very young I can say for a fact that it’s not fun lol. From the day I got into elementary school they would force me to read these books like “super flex” which would like tell me my overreactions are stupid and stuff. They also handled my meltdowns terribly. Whenever I had a meltdown, which used to typically look like me screaming, crying, and attacking anything and anyone near me the teachers in my special ed program would forcefully hold me down so hard that it would make it so I couldn’t breath. I have a few other stories but most of them I don’t remember because I was young or something. anyways I’m doing better now, my meltdowns are less severe and usually just consist of me going nonverbal, and crying, plus they don’t happen as often anymore so yay ig lol. I love your videos and love to see your experiences as someone with autism to another. Thanks for sharing this :D
I never heard of Super Flex before but after looking it up omg. This literally is just villainizing normal autistic traits and teaching kids its bad to feel their normal neurodivergent feelings and do normal neurodivergent things. Like they'd infect the minds of 'normal kids' and make them do horrible things like, 'speak off topic' or 'want to be left alone and not be touched' the hell ;n; I feel so bad for you
That's just cruel. Call CPS.
@@insectoidabomination sadly there isn’t much I can do since it was over 5 years ago and I was a very young child.
@@jup1t3r.t3a4 :( maybe you can help others out with getting the word out if something like your situation happens
did you or your parents try to file criminal charges?
Oh god. I had character strong in 6th grade.
The only thing anyone enjoyed about it was the four corners game and our "success" teacher reading Harry Potter to us at the end of class, and once we finished the book, getting to watch the movie.
Literally all I remember from that goddamn class is reading and watching the first 2 Harry Potter films and books.
webby?? we didn’t even do that in kindergarten. i’m sorry you had these experiences, my school is pretty good with helping Neurodivergent kids.
I got in a special class in my first year of middle school (5th for me.) I have ODC, but nothing that intervenes with my schoolwork, I graduated from that class, and got put into a high scoring class. But when I was in that grade, the teachers were excellent.
Again I am so sorry you had to go through these experiences!
a webby sound like something I would've learned about in kindergarten science as that's when I learned the scientific name for you fingers but nope ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i had advisory too! it's SO AMAZING to see someone else relate to just how god awful those activities were for ND kids. they. were. sensory. hell. thankfully our teacher was really lazy, she rarely made us do the activities (which was funny bc other teachers would ask abt them and we'd be like "huh?") and in my final year at that HS she just... vanished?? i dunno, but for some reason none of us got re-assigned to new classes so it ended up becoming a free period for me. about a bit more than halfway into the year, counseling finally got wind of all these kids who didn't have advisory teachers. they said they'd give us new teachers, but it never happened. i wasn't fond of advisory anyway so i didn't bother to follow up on it. to this day i'm so glad their organizational failure let me dodge that sucky class.
I'm so sorry that you had to go through these experiences as a neurodivergent kid! that must have sucked. Although my school didn't do stuff like character strong and the webby, it was still really weird. At my old school, they made us recite a weird verse about god every morning from kindergarten to eighth grade, and it wasn't even a religious school! They were also really obsessed with nature, like REALLY obsessed. Like, they would have us take a walk in the forest every wednesday, and we were taught to worship trees and god. They also did extremely unsafe things, like give kindergarteners sharp knives, and make everyone walk through a spiral of evergreen leaves holding a candle, and have third graders walk around with burning candles on their head, causing hot wax to drip on the childrens heads. One time, my friend's hair even caught on fire, and my mom had to come to the rescue and put it out with a towel, but that must have been a really traumatic experience for her. My school also had a mandatory sewing class, and violin/recorder class, and they hired really bad old fashioned teachers whose only good quality was being able to make good chalk drawings. One of these teachers had a talking to me about wearing leggings, and said "you can't wear leggings, they aren’t attractive, and boys don’t like them!" This was when I was in third grade for that matter, and there were only two boys in my grade. I could probably go on about my old school for hours, but it's currently 2 am on a school night so I want to get some sleep. I absolutely love your content by the way. I just found out about it recently, and now I have watched all of your videos lol. I might draw your persona sometime if I have the chance. Sorry about writing a whole damn paragraph. Also, ableist teachers suck. I'm sure you will continue to make great content, and you definitely deserve all the support you are getting, and more. ❤
Wow, your old school sounds w i l d, and also just terrible honestly. I'm sorry you had to go through all of that.
And awww, thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it!
@@rottika thanks!
Lol as a kid I moved around schools as much as I needed air you'd be surprised how many spanish teachers I've met that don't know a lick of spanish😭
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My school doesn't do Character Strong, but we have this program that basically teaches kids how to be good people. It sounds like a decent idea on the surface, but it always makes me super weirded out.
We have to complete this work that involves various types of emotional stuff (answering questions about ourselves, reflecting on past memories, etc.), and then we have to sit in a circle with the rest of our homeroom and show what we've done.
We start it all off with going around the circle and talking about how we feel. I'm lucky enough to be in a homeroom where the teacher lets us pass if we don't want to share our emotions, but I've heard stories from other homerooms where teachers DEMANDED that students share. The teacher then calls on a few people to elaborate on their feelings and tell the circle why they're feeling the way they are.
THEN, the teacher has people "resonate" with the scholar who shared. You have to stand in the middle of the circle with the person and tell them what you noticed about they said and what it shows about the person. You then have to end it off with some form of physical contact, like a hug or a fist bump, before going back to your seat. The teachers also make people resonate with the scholars who are showing work in the circle.
I'm hella neurodivergent (Anxiety and ADHD), so all of this is HIGHLY uncomfortable for me. I don't want to be that vulnerable with people I barely know. I have trouble turning my emotions into words, so I can't express my gratitude or empathy for someone without coming off as fake. I've started skipping homeroom on Mondays to avoid attending.
And even then, I bet it's not any better for people with other conditions. I can't even begin to comprehend how this shit would feel to low/no empathy people (the way my school drills into us that empathy is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER and we MUST SHOW IT is a whole different story) or anyone who doesn't like touch.
Oh, and did I mention that this shit is for a GRADE?? That affects our GPA? My GPA is at, like, a 2 right now because I have an F in this class. But I keep scoring high on tests and am above my grade level in academics... Hmm, weird.
i really hate how schools often are when it comes to neurodivergent people. it seems everyone has at least 1 story from school about an ableist teacher or something. for me, it was my primary school refusing to get me a diagnosis for autism, despite the fact that right away in year 7, the first year of high school, they were getting me diagnosed. at the moment, the exact same teacher who denied my autism is denying my brother an adhd diagnosis, despite the fact that i now have a diagnosis and she is aware. i wonder if the same thing will happen to him that happened to me.
THE WEBBY HANDSHAKE OML I HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT TOO. Im autistic too, and I HATED going through any touchy stuff as well. One time my teacher even insisted I was acting the way I do for “attention” and said something along the line of “yes I know, you always like to be the center of attention don’t you” and it made me cry so I had to go to the office to calm down. And during advisory I would also draw, or write stories. My advisory teacher wasn’t AS bad, we got pretty close as time went on but she would also always insist I do work instead of drawing..even though I didn’t have any work. Sometimes she’d set a timer for around 10 minutes for “drawing time” and the rest was work time, EVEN THOUGH I DIDNT HAVE WORK. Very annoying I always hated advisory, and she was SO picky on how I wrote in my planner. I would organize things very different, but it would still work for me, and she would never approve my planner because it wasn’t “her way” even though all the other teachers did..
It was ahh, hated advisory honestly. She wasn’t a terrible person or teacher but she was annoying sometimes too.
ohh my god, forced handshakes and greeting is the worst. i'm from a different country and had a wildly different school experience, but we had these "culture days" occasionally and we'd be forced to do that elbow-dance thing, I absolutely hated it.
Grade 8 Grad was the worst thing I can actually remember since a good 90% chunk of my childhood memories is entirely gone, also being touch adverse. We were forced to walk down the isle linked in arms with someone. Originally I didn't mind much, because the teachers agreed that this girl I was friends with at the time and I could go down together. We were both wearing sleeveless dresses, which again, was fine when they agreed I could walk with her. Then literally last minute, RIGHT before we go through the doors, the teachers pulled us apart and said that we had to pair with a boy. I ended up having to walk linked arm-in-arm with this guy I didn't even KNOW, and he was wearing a tuxedo with the worst texture it was physically hurting my arm. I wanted to cry and I ended up leaving the after party early after a bunch of other things just kept going wrong, and then proceeded to cry at home.
what I DO remember from elementary school, though, was our "panic room." this was a room that was SUPPOSEDLY supposed to help nd kids calm down in a space separate from other students and it was sound proofed. Sounds decent in theory based on that. But then the room could ONLY lock from the outside, had a small table in it but no cushions so you had to sit directly on the floor, had those VERY loudly buzzing lights and the lights were dim which, Woulllld be fine, but they were like a sickly yellow-green colour. it was very obvious that it was less of a place for kids to chill out if they were overwhelmed and more of a "this kid is getting violent and loud, so we'll lock them in there until they stop". I only was put in once for a panic attack after I was assaulted by the student that often gets locked in that room, which really did not fucking help.
I think regardless of where anyone lives, we can all agree that school as an autistic kid was absolute hell on earth and getting out of there without trauma is more shocking than not.
I have autism too (most people don’t know, not even friends) and I also have social anxiety and touch aversion from it (I’m also aroace which sometimes is related to touch aversion) But for some reason, when it comes to my not-super-close-but-I-have-most-my-classes-with-friends, there seems to be some sort of disconnect. Like, two of my friends (the ones I have all my academic classes with) will touch my hair and tap me on the head! Not despite the fact I’m touch averse, but because of it! (Unfortunately one of them takes the same bus as me and whenever one of her other friends and her can’t find a seat, they insist on squishing ME into a seat! Even when only she sits next to me, she somehow manages to take up 4/5 of the seat because ever time there is the smallest turn, she squishes in like, a centimeter, but that adds up when you’re on a 30-min bus ride, so I somehow end up having to squish as much as physically possible against the window just to avoid being touched. Anyway, sorry for venting all of this.
No need to apologise! I'm really sorry you have to go through that kind of shit, it sounds absolutely awful, my dude. My condolences. 😔
Sounds horrible! I'm sorry about what you gotta go through.
My grandma used to be a teacher for children on the spectrum and children with disabilities. This woman must have been an ass.
Dude, listening to you was like hearing my middle school years spoken back to me.
I was in advisory with this one woman named Mrs. H for two years (we didn't have advisory in 6th grade, but did in 7th and 8th) and I also have autism. She made us talk about our feelings and shake hands and look each other in the eyes and after I told her I was uncomfortable, she decided that it was a good time to bring up some xenophobic bs about how "it may be different where I am from, but in the United States we do things a certain way" and like??? what??
Oh, and she also downplayed my experiences with getting SA'd in a bathroom by some dude who was way taller than me, she decided that I was just making it up to have an excuse to draw instead of doing my work (even though I, just like you, had no work due in middle school, I was a good student).
Yeahhh we have a lot in common :(
I had to do activities that required socialising and touching hands in school and I would always get to off when I said I didn't feel comfortable with the activity.
I'm not diagnosed with autism but I don't like touching people or talking to anyone I'm not familiar with especially since alot of other kids really didn't like me at all and somehow me not wanting to hold hands was worse than those kids telling me to harm myself????
Think my school needs some education on bullying and mental health bc they didn't even know what depression was and framed it as "You're just sad for 1 day"
the webby thing sounds kinda like a cult
IT DOES, ACTUALLY. 💀
:O
“So obviously when mrs C would ask us to get up and hold hands my response would be like have you planned your funeral?” Love the ad placement
i had a completly different advisory class experience, my advisory teacher was also the 504 coordinator so we didnt have to deal with any ableism at all, worst that ever happened was one time we had a school shooter drill during it. usually we would just go on wordle or talk about upcoming events
also that webby thing sounds fucking horrid, i fail to see how anyone thought that was a good idea and i am so sorry you had to deal with that
as an autistic who HATES touch and seriously cannot handle it, and i am SO glad i went to a school that didn't do this. in middle school i wasn't diagnosed yet and had really sensitive ears (to like sound yk) and i would have to CONSTANTLY cover my ears or plug them, and my teachers were *very* aware of this. I asked my teachers if i could wear or bring headphones if it was getting too loud and i was having a sensory overload, but all of them said "do you have a disability?" and i'd respond "i haven't been diagnosed with anything, no." and they'd respond "well then your fine. just don't pay attention to the inflictions." LIKE HUH?
The webby thing made me WHEEZE
My teachers used to do Character Strong, and it was horrible. One time we learned about stress, and my teacher encouraged me to tell the class about my stress when moving there, since it was a long way from where I was before (not really but enough for it to be “impressive”). I was still upset about it -still being pretty young and missing my childhood friends- and she just *kept PRESSING IT* and digging it further. I ended up crying and she didn’t even batt an eye at me. I hated that teacher.
Once a teacher tried to send me to the principle’s office because I didn’t raise my hand
characterstrong was the WORST thing ever. also this is like… exactly what my middleschool experience was like. we had win (what i need), advisory, and “power” which is reading when we dont have advisory IT WAS SO ANNOYING
Was an undiagnosed ADHD kid in an AP history class, and I've no idea if this was standard for AP classes, but we NEVER went over any material in class. It would be ~1-2 hours of reading a text book per night then we'd come in and do a quiz about what we read the previous night. After that it was just reviewing how to write an essay for the AP test at the end of the year. It was more of an English class than anything. Safe to say I never opened that textbook once (it was boring as all hell to read, especially sections I already knew about from previous grade level classes) and scrapped by with my previous American history knowledge. The teacher could not have cared less about how I was struggling (said I was just being lazy) and even refused to sign the paper giving me permission to drop from the AP course into a standard level class. The COVID rule where teacher's couldn't fail a student who wasn't failing prior to the shut down saved my butt because I never did any work for that class again until the final AP test (didn't pass the AP test, but passed the class, wasn't told why). It was hell and I quite literally developed stress migraines from that class alone.
my teachers used to not understand that i have mental health issues and a bunch of undiagnosed stuff (mainly adhd) and kept forcing their narrative of “i just dont know the language” (im originally not from where i live) and constantly made me miss classes to join english practice classes instead of just listening to me. even after a huge breakdown i had in class because of how bad my mental health was and poured my heart out to my favourite teacher (aka one of the few teachers who actually cared about the kids) the teachers kept on pushing and pushing the whole “oh you just dont know english!!!” when i was already speaking the language fluently
My senior year of high school, in the last semester, I needed one more credit so I took a new class called “fashion and design”. Fashion interests me- I love drawing fashion illustrations- so I was very eager to try it! Turns out, it was a sewing class where we were given simple patterns to copy. The most advanced things we made was a square eye pillow. Also, the curriculum was being made up as we went as I’d often finish things early and have to wait for her to find something else for us to do.
That was fine enough, I made it my mission to overcomplicate everything so it would be more fun. When we were supposed to make Valentine’s Day cards, I made a photorealistic heart from card stock covered in fabric that pulled apart with stringy tendons to reveal flowers inside. It was cool as hell, but the teacher didn’t think it was “cute”. The only reason I didn’t have to redo it was one specific design quality she noticed that reminded her of son and a problem he’d had with his heart… :’)
Anyway, she was also incredibly ableist. I have audio processing problems and couldn’t hear everyone in the room with the way it was set up (there was a big countertop in the middle of the room so I couldn’t see half the class) but she refused to change it + got mad at me when I spoke over other students I didn’t know were talking.
She told us if there were any projects we wanted to do, to tell her and she’d include it. I wanted to make a doll, so for one assignment she gave us all a simple square pillow pattern and told me I could make my doll instead. It was a far bigger project than I could make in a week, so when it came time to show her what we’d made, all I had was a hand. I’d spent hours of my own free time hand stitching it- it was really detailed and at such a small scale I couldn’t machine it.
I proudly presented it, a far more ambitious project than anyone else had done, but it was the chance she’d given me to make something on my own terms and I was so proud. When she saw it, she made a disappointed sound and said “I don’t think this fits what I assigned you.”
I protested with her that there’s no way I could’ve done that, and I asked if it would count for the grade. I needed a grade because *they closed in a week* and if we miss a single assignment in our school, they don’t let you walk at graduation. She said she’d need to think about it, and refused to talk to me. At this point, I was starting to cry because I’d worked so hard for this project and to hear that it might’ve cost me the chance to walk at graduation was crushing! She just silently stared at me, someone with trauma related to being silently stared at which she knew about, as I pleaded with her to talk to me. Everyone was staring at me now, and it was triggering some past memories :’) now, I was full on sobbing as she sat and smiled at me.
Finally, she said “I don’t like it when you cry. It feels like you’re manipulating me.” Later, she explained her justification is that “she worked so hard to help me realize my projects- even bringing in some of her own beads from home!- just for me to be so ungrateful”. But I know she thought she was teaching me a lesson- that was the only thing she seemed passionate about teaching, how to act Properly.
Anyway, she got fired. That was the only bad teacher I had for high school, so I count myself lucky.
Dude I love your channel, I found you thru a comment some time ago and watched your video. I've come back and I love your videos!
I didn’t have character strong, however the amount of times I’ve got sent to the office, yelled at, sent home, etc for drawing is insane. It’s like they don’t even care that I can listen and draw at the same time. Side note: I also had a teacher in high school trigger a seizure by pretending to simulate lightning and thunder because “it related to the story” he didn’t even realize I was having one, just kept flashing the lights.
I just found ur channel not so long ago, I love ur content and ur art!
Having an advisory class in my high school it was hell. Even when getting most of my work done and wanted to draw the new teacher she wouldn't and try to convince me otherwise. The amount of meltdowns I had wasn't fun and it was amped by my bully being in the class and she didn't do shit. I practically begged my parents to do French instead and they let me and it took over that period lol
Honestly this reminds me of a very specific instance I had in high school.
Now a tiny bit of backstory: In elementary I was an excellent student, got good grades and was fairly happy (few issues here and there but not important to the story).
In 5th grade (the last year of elementary in my area) we had a group of middle schoolers come and tell us about their school, trying to encourage people to apply. It was a charter school based around environmentalism and had a raffle style entry process, I was super intrigued since I loved animals so I applied.
I got in and was immediately overwhelmed, they had left out the fact that the curriculum was a year ahead so I was completely lost. Now going from needing no help to this feeling of complete helplessness I think broke something in my young mind because I was terrified of asking for help or acting like I was struggling in front of my classmates. This was the beginning of my downward spiral.
My grades completely tanked and I was constantly being pulled aside by teachers telling me that I was smart and just needed to turn in the work but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Every year they threatened to kick me out but never did and I honestly don't understand why they didn't. This pattern continued into high school where this circumstance took place.
I believe it was the beginning of my senior year and I was still flunking pretty much everything (except extra curriculars like choir and orchestra). Now I didn't know this until my senior year but I was missing all of my P.E. credits due to taking two music classes (thank you scheduling lady, she was cool but that was a big oof) so I wasn't "on track to graduate" because of it and I believe an english and history credit (so 3½ credits short). Half way through the year, still struggling, I get pulled into my counselors office. I had never met this woman despite working as an aid in the front office and in the library (again scheduling mishaps I hadn't realized were mishaps) so this was my first interaction with her. She asked me why I was failing and I was honestly and said I had been struggling and happened to procrastinate a lot, she looked me dead in the eyes and said, "You don't have a procrastination issue" and proceeded to lecture me about how I wouldn't graduate if I kept this up before sending me back to class. I was extremely pissed off that she had the audacity to just assume what was wrong with me despite not knowing me at all and the struggles I was dealing with at the time.
Needless to say I didn't end up graduating, became a "super senior" and then dropped out a couple months before the end of the school year due to stress (was waking up nauseous on a daily basis for months at that point and was extremely suicidal).
There is a lot I left out but I felt this was already getting super long so I didn't want to completely bore anyone.
i might’ve done something similar before (haha on-and-off bad memory saving my life for once???) but the description of the webby still makes me feel like i’m being tazed
That whole thing about handshakes is ridiculous. I will never understand Allistics and all these specific social rules we’ve all gone along with
This story reminds me a lot of my preschool (yes, my 3 - 6 year old self of all things good bad and screaming in the universe)
I had undiagnosed ADHD and general anxiety, and it didn’t help that the teachers there didn’t know how to treat the neurotypical kids right in the first place. I barely remember most of it; it’s a library of suppressed memories that pop up whenever I need them least (for instance whilst I’m having a panic attack). But I know for sure it was hell. It was abuse. Actually, it contributed to another abusive environment I was going through at the same time.
I went into a first-year kindergarten teachers classroom after that hell and a month later was sent right back to that preschool for their kinder program because my parents saw the horrors of kinder but not pre?
Long story short, I went into first grade as essentially a mental shell. I was the kid who talked to themselves and responded to themself. I was the kid who never paid attention. I was the kid who sat alone, literally staring into nothingness for hours. I was the kid who couldn’t make friends, and when I did got over-attached because I never had many at all before(I remember kids deliberately avoiding me).
It seems silly to talk about but I never got the chance to live life like a kid that young deserves.
A few days ago I gad a dream about one of my preschool -abusers- “teachers” pressuring me to jump onto the tracks of a subway.
I'm in a transition program for those with IEPs or 504 plans, and bc of my (unconventional) religion, I was asked to put a religious tool away yesterday, and was taken out of one of the groups run by the worker who told me, "that's it, you're done, put those away". I'm 18 btw
I have facial blindness and ASD.
In the mainstream classes I could go "hello/goodmorning sir/maam" they'd be like "hello/goodmorning *blank*"
In the special needs unit it would go like
"Hello/goodmorning mis"
"Mis what?!"
They expected me to remember their names and one time yelled at me for not remembering.
Your channel is literally a godsend! So enjoyable to watch while drawing! AGH I love it so much!
I think that kindness is about making a small effort to save others a big effort, not about summoning a tulpa and introducing it to others.
the way i could never talk about my ableist teachers in a video since it would probably just devolve into me venting because WOW my teachers where on a whole new level of disgusting
…as a fellow ADS sufferer and artist…this hurts me viscerally, you poor thing. Mrs.C sounds like most of the teachers I had through my public school career. To the point I have school-based PTSD and couldn’t go to college after high school. I’m lucky to have not suffered the weird ‘character strong’ rituals, but I got mocked a ton for sensory squicks and endured lots of public humiliation. And my mom had to fight many jerks like Mrs.C, she would get it too. Beautiful art, btw! I love the color and impeccably detailed and clean linework!
I found your channel recently and I've really been enjoying your art and content! Glad to be here :)
My brother has character strong. (I use to have it and I was uncomfortable because I don’t have strong understanding of emotions never had and it was just to make people talk about emotions)It’s a bit different, but they have to right down emotions and will push people to talk about triggering stuff, no joke it’s a entire paper packet WEEKLY and makes you read it out loud.
That teacher would be absolute HELL for me. I have adhd, and before I was diagnosed, I had a similar teacher in the sixth grade for home room and social studies. She seemed to HATE me, made me cry on multiple occasions. She also made my step mom’s sister cry when she was in her class. I also struggle engaging with social studies material, so my grade was pretty much crap. Math is also a struggle for me. I am apparently gifted in math, but my teachers always take math either too slow or too fast. My first semester math teacher that year made me actually AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP when I needed it, and made my social anxiety much worse. Thankfully, I was moved out of her class, but not before learning that the counselors were bad at their jobs, and probably unlicensed. I’ve since been moved to a new district (thankfully).
That sounds infuriating, and having undiagnosed ASD throughout my whole childhood I understand this too well ;-;
However, I love your Fluttershy voice more than life.
I don't have 'character strong', but I have something called 'Life Inteligence Lab' that is similar.
And I cannot begin to even think how many years of abuse and therapy this class has set for any student's future. The teacher deadass said that no matter what, it's never reasonable to cut relations and/or keep things strictly professional with someone, that we should always reconect and befriend anyone, even if the other person isn't putting the effort. And when I questioned it, the teacher acted as if I was some kind of sociopathic bastard. He even had the audacity to say, to the whole class, that a daughter r4ped by her father should try to reconectwith her father because they're blood family, when I gave it as n example of a situation that reconecting would not be good.
I had a 5th grade teacher that would give kids stuff on their birthday. she'd let you pick out something from a drawr. one day, it was my birthday. I told her, she told me "happy birthday" and I had to fight off crying for the rest of the day because I didn't get to pick a thing :( She terrified me. I even once had such a bad upset stomach that I called my grandpa to pick me up, but he never came, so for the entire day I was laying on the floor with a trash can in pain :D
Also had an 8th grade english teacher who decided to ask me, in the middle of class, out loud, in front of EVERYONE, if I was neglected at home. All because my brain is funky, and I was answering the "correct this sentence" question differently. I'd practically rearrange it, because that made sense to me. But she decided that I MUST be neglected, because that would be the only reason why I'd be doing this! She also accused a kid of plagarism, for using a theaurus. saying the word was too complicated for her to know.
Fun fact I'm also terrified of talking to people :D so I literally just would shrink away because other children my age scared me, and adults made me fearful of their authority. I don't know if something is wrong with me, but for now, I just got a funky brain that makes me act weird :)
Great video!
ye neurophobes are out there and they will make you cry
I had a situation like this once, but it wasn’t nearly as bad since I didn’t have to see the person as much
sorry abt that broski
I REMEMBER CHARACTER STRONG!!!! It was really weird sometimes, though the teacher that I had teach it was a really easygoing with it all and much more considerate to people who didn’t want to/couldn’t participate
My school did character strong too!! We mostly talked about mental health and how doing things for other people can help us feel better but I didn’t really learn anything from it. I didn’t like my home room either but she wasn’t as bad as yours.she over exaggerated things like missing work even if you only had a little bit, She was late to class on certain occasions, she called on kids that didn’t have their hand up, and wouldn’t let you go to school activities if you had even one missing assignment. Probably over half of the people that had her hated her. She also wouldn’t let me doodle when we we’re listening to videos and things. (she let other kids write stuff down but no doodling) these videos had no visual asspect either it was videos of people talking, and me doodling wouldn’t have affected my learning from that at all because I have an auditory learning style and would’ve learned just as well if I was doodling. She was a math teacher too and we had no idea what to do after we finished our homework because she never told us. Eventually I figured out we could read or work on missing work, but, only missing math work.
The American school system is genuinely terrible for most children, but especially those with any sort of disability. I had a LOT of health problems and would miss SO much school, and also missed a lot of class time because I needed to go to the nurses office between each class. Very few teachers I had in highschool would help me keep up with what I missed, saying they didn't have time (when they were just sitting and reading a book while the rest of the kids were working on assignments) and that I would have to come see them AFTER SCHOOL. Not during lunch, or another class. They wanted me to stay after school to come see them. I didn't drive. My parents worked. The only way I had to get home was the school bus, if I missed that, I was screwed. I barely had enough time to get from my last class to the bus before it left, let alone stop in on ALL my teachers and have them explain everything I missed.
I love your art! i just found your channel and have instantly subbed after the first video I watched
why does the word "webby" sound *SO* wrong
As an autistic person, I felt this! I was in special education and it sucked almost all of the special education teachers were ablest! ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`)
I'm not from a progressive country and autism and other mental issues that are invisible to eye aren't treated seriously here and even mentioning them could lead to problems, but the teachers have always been very nice to me, they didn't care if I was autistic or not. We had scary strict teachers but they were pretty mellow outside of classes too.
honestly ur channel is so good and underrated i cant believe u dont have more subscriebers, love ur work keep up witch!!
Webby sounds like an AO3 tag. Idk why
as soon as i hear the word "character strong" thats a oh no for me
Now i'm thankful, that my school only forced me to clean up leaves in autumn.
im also autistic and i had a teacher in kindergarten thru 2nd grade that was like the special needs class person. like we went in another room and did. stuff? not really sure what we even did. but she was not very patient with the other autistic kids and yelled at us on several occasions :o( she made alot of people cry. also she wouldn't let me go pee so i peed myself on multiple occasions just because she wouldn't let me go
"Immediately following the webby pledge" is killing me
Also, really sorry you had this experience. :(
first video i've come across and gotta say, the fluttershy voice got me. subscribed.
The layout of your school district is like a carbon copy of mine. I thought my school district was wonky
i had a music teacher who had asked us one day to raise our hands if we wanted a b or a or better, then looked around and said something along the lines of "well if you aren't here for an A then you should just drop out of school (we were in 6th or 7th grade) your a waste of space" when she barely taught us how to play instruments and i had to get my friend to teach me how to play the drums because she was incompetent.
The OC and drawings are womderdul and very creative!!
My school forced us to write positive personality traits on a poster board and sign it as a "social contract". There was a choir teacher that took this literally and would send kids to the office if they weren't being "kind" or whatever trait was on the wall. What a strange time in high school.
I had advisory in my school too. Except my advisor was a sweetheart. I'm sorry this happened
also as an autistic person, i hate how relatable this all was; when i went into 9th grade, they made us to similar interaction activities and i got called out multiple times for not participating enough, and specifically for not making enough eye contact. absolute nightmare.
I don't know how you could POSSIBLY make a business' handshake sound wrong, but the inventor of the Webby pledge found a way
HELLO! 😊 I LOVE UR CHANNEL im so early so i wanted to say hello!
Also we have advisory too 😅 its sucks at my school
My middle school dosen’t have that, but still, most of the teachers suck 🙁
I love your art! I want to get to that skill level one day!
I have an awesome school system and we do this thing where the school encourages us not to do drugs and what to do when you're bullied. We don't do the stupid holding hands thing
I MAY have a similar experience, but if it isn't then blame my brain for connecting the dots
Okay, here's a teacher called "Yana", i was online school that time and when i send her work to her, she just ignored, pretty much never read it. School starts, she looked cheery but only for 1, friggin, day. The rest of her days seems to be her more "tired" than me and p1ssed, so to speak. I kinda got counseling'd after i cried a few damn times, after that she explained that i, have autism, but she says "i have a daughter who is austistic, too, DEAL WITH THIS SH1TTY CLASS" in the most calm, polite and non-sweary thing possible, not very able-ist, but my brains says it still makes her rude, and i'll never forgive her for that if she asks me to.(and yes, this happened in the same year, 2022)
I may be misdiagnosed since autism only affected me till im 7(like speaking as late a 6yo,can't ride a bicycle, that sort of stuff), I have autism, to the point i don't even know if im autistic or allistic-
-random girl on the internet who is obsessed with alicorns to the point where she creates "Welcome to Ponesia"
Edit: figured out "high functioning" is ableist. Sorry.
Hey! This is my first video of yours that I’ve watched! Im already obsessed!!
(Edit) also I’m in middle school doing character strong xd
i live in Australia and the 3 towns/cities I lived in never had those specific programs but honestly with he fact that i had a troubled childhood and never gone for a health/mental health check-up type thing I would get upset and violent pretty fast when things went wrong and oh my god if I couldn't understand or you made me feel dumb in a subject i understood (often things that happened) its probably pretty clear why i had so few friends and the teachers weren't willing to click with me and all my primary school years (1-6) i did do good in all my classes and was exceptional but honestly the fact i was the only one allowed to stay in class during breaks was fun but the fact i worked/read during that time confused them its safe to say i like my me time lol people used to hate me
Our advisory class was called Study Hall.
I didn't have an issue with the teacher overseeing it, she mostly got on the kids who were loud.
But I do remember one time I got injured in the middle of the school day and got sent home. The next day my science teacher asked where my homework was even though she was my last class and I physically hadn't been there to even write down the assignment.
And our school had these mandatory planners. Like you were required to write down your homework of the day, sure, but they also had slots for your allotted bathroom breaks and you got in trouble if you had to go too much during class. (Like more than two times I think? Idk).
I only wrote in it because the teachers checked at the end of the week. Schedules have never and still don't work for me.
Also our school was split up into Kindergarten/ 1st-3rd/ 4th/ 5th-7th/ 8th/ 9th-12th so I get the unusual setup.
I’ve never seen anyone I enjoy watching so much but is not well known but you still have a good following and I salute you my guy 😔👌
I’m from the uk, and we have pshce (something like physical, social health as citizenship education) that is similar ig, particularly in middle school where we were forced to do class “wellbeing” and talk about ourselves personally. That teacher sounds horrible, I also have asd and touch aversion, and I always hated touching activities plus I was undiagnosed so I couldn’t avoid participating. Plus we would have like “culture days” where we would eat new foods, learn partner and group dances, and go to an assembly 😭. All in all my middle school experience wasn’t terrible, but also,there was an ableist french teacher I had for 4 yrs and she hated me, and gave me panic attacks lol
Ps that art was excellent, I’m pretty new to your channel.
I had a teacher in 7th grade who would constantly ignore me or be passive aggressive. She would ask if anyone needed the notes longer, or if anyone had questions, anytime I raised my hand, she would look right at me and say "No one? Ok moving on" 😭 One time someone started a physical fight with me in her class, and I had to try and defend myself. Not only did she do NOTHING, she continued to pair me up with that student. She also never moved my seat (which was in the very back corner) the whole year, when she would switch the seating 🥲 Didn't like her much!
This sounds absolutely horrid. As some one that HATES random touching (though consensual touching is fine) I would despise this class. I've had moments were people have hugged me and I just randomly flinch and freeze up instead of hugging back, so doing stuff like that EVERY DAY is a nightmare. I also think its weird that she was so against art and reading, as those were the only things allowed after a test.
Completely unrelated (well kinda related due to it being autism related) but as soon as the dhmis part came on I got so freakin excited due to dhmis being a current hyperfixation/special interest ^^
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omf... Man when I was also in Middle-school my teacher was extremely Toxic and Ablest. Most of the kids in my year were generally scared of them because everybody thought she had Multiple-personality disorder. Everybody hated her because she was rude to this pacific kid who never did anything wrong. They ended up getting suspended for 'drawing' in the middle of class. Keep in mind they also had severe social anxiety and hated touch. I remember them having to go to around 5 different people (Including me) Everyday just to vent. I felt bad for her and I'm glad the woman that taught us is fired.
My school does a mix of these two.
Mondays we go to our advisory and do basically 'character strong' but my teacher doesn't care enough to do it so we dont.
Rest of the week we can get chosen or choose what class to go to, preferably our teachers class.
I had a similar teacher in middle school. I kept getting detentions for not getting more than 6 in spelling tests despite the fact I'm dyslexic and struggle spelling long complicated words but the teacher didn't care.
I remember having a reall really bad teacher. ( I’ve had a hand full of bad teachers but this one was probably the worst.) So the drama started back in 3rd grade. ( Ima call her Mrs sparkles since it’s close to her name) I was actually the favorite of this teacher so where my friends, but I remember this lady would tell stories about how her kid was ether so bad or good. And she would go on and on , as well tell the ENTIRE CLASS HOW BAD WE WERE and we where and that we where the worst class she’s ever had Blah blah. I remember one time a kid named B sat next to the wall of the room and put a tiny bit of crayon on the wall and she got so angry at him and made this kid stay at school after everyone left everyday for a week. Worst of all I share the same birthday with this women. But the story hits its clime ax in the fifth grade. My younger brother got this teacher. And for some reason this teacher hated my younger brother. She scheduled a conference with my mom. I was sick the day of so I didn’t get a first person point of view but I documented EVERYTHING. So this women says “ J is a AWFUL student he
never pays attention I’m class and has a 69 YES A 69 in math for his report card. My family is smart and we’re all A students. He’s was in the Gifted program and has never had grades that low. Then the teacher tells my mom who has more than three kids , “I know you a pretty laid back mom.” When this lady has one 3 year old and is pregnant. “ you need to punish him more.” So my mom replied, “ What do you want me to do ? Lock him up beat him?” She replied I remember she said the other teachers were just sitting there questioning everything. And when Mrs sparkles leaves for labor Js grades were A’s again. (Dear god long story)(edit) I used to cry like a lot over dum things. Like I was like don’t touch me don’t talk to me please stay away unless I know you and that combined with me being claustrophobic.
DOnt hug me Im scared out of nowhere caught me so off guard XD
YOOO YOU HAVE A TOYHOUSE, THAT'S SO COOL :DD i spend a lot of time on there!
im currently in middle school and i swear its basically the same, for us its called community circles/ tutorial were community circle is 15 minutes and each day we learn about the "positivity project" and tutorial is we just read and do homework or go to a different class we need to catch up in and on thursdays we go in the gym. my teacher for that class is out for my soul bc some days i mentally cant bring myself to read and i have to sit there and if i dont read she comes and yells at me and says im attention seeking and shit and one day i just lost it and told her to hit me with her car and i got sent to the office but GOD DAMN IT FELT GOOD
This doesn't have to do much with the storytime, but I love your video, it feels lowkey nostalgic for some reason.
I'm in 8th grade and we've been doing character strong at my school for a few years now. My school is very character-focused and does a tone of TFL (time for living) stuff. It's a K-8th grade school and I've been here since K4. Though the years I've done a lot of:guided meditation, circle talks, kumbya sing a longs, and TFL little families. It's actually pretty chill or was most of the time. Except for the meditations we had to do in 3/4 grades were we have to imagine we were pasta noodles or frogs. Character strong is an upgrade for me (but we dont do webby handshake??? what the heck??) and also have another building that's for the special ed teachers who help out the kids with different learning needs. (even if youre not one of the special ed people you can go there; like if you have issues in class or need a break or whatever.)
I'm diagnosed ADHD and undiagnosed autistic, both of my disorders went unnoticed in childhood because I had good grades (former gifted child syndrome babyyyy)
I'm in animation college now and the blatant fucking ableism on display by teachers, classmates and the administration is actually infuriating.
I had to fight tooth and nail for an accommodation plan even though I was promised one at the start of the year, and even a whole semester later none of my professors were told about it.
(I only attend class every other day, I can leave any time if I need to, and I have to get written instructions for my assignments since I can't listen to the lectures or take notes by myself, to name a few)
I had one teacher outright refuse to write the assignment down after I explained that I needed it.
Several of my classmates have typed up actual essays whenever I asked for help in the groupchats, essentially dismissing all my symptoms to call me lazy, talk down to me, and hound me for not talking to them face to face (when I have explained at length why text is much easier)
Another of my professors deadass CHASED AFTER ME when I left class because of an oncoming sensory overload meltdown, grabbed my shoulder, and scolded me for not saying "goodbye" to him, among other things. Wouldn't listen to a word when I tried to explain (via typing because the meltdown made me go nonverbal).
So yeah while I did well in school, university is a fucking nightmare for me lol
Update: I dropped out at the beginning of 2023, best decision I ever made
I also hava advisory class and SBAC tests, I didn't realize those weren't common
That description of a ”webby” is such Nero-typical bullshit that hearing it made me angrily clench up all over my body lol
The DHMIS reference is great!!